The WorkPlace Big Five Profile 4.0 CERTIFICATION and TRAINING Program This is a certification program approved and recognized by the CentACS (Centre for Applied Cognitive Studies, USA). It enables you to optimize your own and others work performance by applying the Five-Factor Model of Personality and prepares you to use the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0 and/or the NEO PI-R and NEO-FFI assessments within your own organization or with your clients. Program Highlights Your personal Big Five assessment results and guidance in understanding them Introduction to the Howard s Human Resource Optimizer (HRO) Model for determining whether to recommend development, support, or compensate for a performance gap when coaching an individual; based on an understanding of current research on the nature/nurture debate Practice using and relating the Big Five to leadership development, team effectiveness, career planning, coaching individuals, job selection, 360º performance assessment, and selling and influencing Small group, full group, and individual work analyzing practical case studies and performance applications of the model Classroom discussion, activities, and participative exercises to explain the model A comprehensive explanation of the Five-Factor Model of Personality, including the historical global shift to the five factor model, current research on personality traits, and a review of existing alternatives to personality measurement A review of how the Five-Factor Model of Personality is explained relative to validity, reliability, coefficient alpha, correlation, and social desirability Administration of the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0 (long & short forms), including the coaching application tools, the scoring procedures, the assessment interpretation (i.e., personality and work competencies), and the individual feedback session The CentACS code of ethics and how to apply it in working with your clients What Program Participants Receive The Owner s Manual for Personality at Work: How the Big Five Personality Traits Affect Performance, Communication, Teamwork, Leadership, and Sales by Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Mitchell Howard, MBA 2001 published by Bard Press WorkPlace Big Five ProFile Workbook: Applying Personality Results at Work by Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Mitchell Howard, MBA 2001 by CentACS Professional Manual for the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile by Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Mitchell Howard, MBA 2001 by CentACS Center for Applied Cognitive Studies Report of your own results after taking the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile The Big Five Certification Program Participant Binder by Pierce J. Howard, Ph.D. and Jane Mitchell Howard, MBA 2009 by CentACS Center for Applied Cognitive Studies Who should attend For human resource and organisation development practitioners who are responsible for the people and talent selection and development function in their organisations
Why Use The WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0? Developed in the U.S.A. by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS) since 1993, the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0 (WorkPlace) is the leading personality assessment based on the Five Factor Model of Personality which has become the standard for psychologists. The WorkPlace was specifically written in workplace terminology to be used for business applications such as: Team Building Leadership Development Performance Coaching Job Selection and Hiring Succession Planning Management/ Supervisory Training Career Development Sales Training Conflict Management OD Intervention The WorkPlace is a normative test and can be used for Job Selection; while many commercially well-known assessments should not be used for Job Selection. The WorkPlace questionnaire and reports have been recognized by the U.S. s PAR (Psychological Assessment Resources). Busy executives find it fast and easy to complete online in 10 15 minutes with only 107 questions. The coefficient alpha of.83 is among the highest of all other assessments. The Bottom Line Using the WorkPlace To select employees: A Leisure Service Provider: Reduced turnover of general managers in one year from 76% to 26% To move associates into the right role within a department: An Accounts Receivable Dept. of a major consumer goods manufacturer: Reduced 60 day balances by 93% in 4 years Reduced days of sales outstanding by 8% in 2 years For succession planning: A Heavy Equipment Manufacturer and Distribution Company: Reduced turnover from 18% to 2% over two years Benefits of using the WorkPlace Reduce Attrition Increase Productivity Improve Communication Increase Sales Increase Associate Satisfaction Effectively Use Training Dollars Users of the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0 say this The WorkPlace Big Five ProFile and the analytical tools that Pierce and Jane Howard have developed to peel back the onion on its results provide meaningful, relevant results that can support coaching at all levels of the organization. The WorkPlace is a powerful tool to improve individual performance as well as the productivity of teams. The Right Stuff! Very insightful! Great tools! These tools can help the bottom line if organizations heed the message. A great tool that all consultants should have in their tool box.
What is the Big Five Model? The Big Five or the Five-Factor Model of Personality is the most current, most valid, most reliable means of assessing personality available today. Psychologists use it as the primary means of understanding and interpreting personality. From the mid-1980 s to the mid-1990 s, the Five-Factor Model of Personality was primarily tested and re-tested in the academic and research communities world-wide and was found to be a superior model to earlier means of explaining and describing personality. The business community began to take the Big Five seriously when Pierce J. Howard and Jane Mitchell Howard s article was published in the September 1995 issue of Training and Development, the trade magazine of the American Society for Training and Development. The article, entitled, Buddy, Can You Paradigm?, gives a brief history of the model s development and explains how the Five-Factor Model may be used to understand individuals, relationships, and teams in work situations. Organizations that want to be up-to-date and remove biases from the workplace are using the Big Five as their model of choice since it offers so much depth and understanding for employees and program participants in all aspects of human resource development. Some key components to the Five-Factor-Model include: Personality has five dimensions Scores on the dimensions will fall along a normal distribution (or a Bell Curve) Personality is best described by individual traits rather than type groupings The strength of individual scores indicates personality preferences People who score in the middle range of the scales will have a combination of traits RELIABLE ACCEPTABLE RESPECTED VALID UNCOMPLICATED COMPATIBLE Extremely reliable compared to available personality inventories High acceptance of personal results by those tested Currently, the most widely respected personality model in the personality research community Established predictive validity across a variety of jobs No theory to understand, a clear vocabulary of individual similarities and differences Serves as a road map to major theories of personality Primary Elements of the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile 4.0 Need for Stability Extraversion Originality Accommodation Consolidation Worry Intensity Interpretation Rebound Time Warmth Sociability Activity Mode Taking Charge Trust of Others Tact Imagination Complexity Change Scope Others Needs Agreement Humility Reserve Perfectionism Organization Drive Concentration Methodicalness
Applications Team Building In a team building session using the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile, participants will learn about themselves, their teammates, and how to improve communication and teamwork with others including customers, vendors, etc. Participants will learn: About their personality Where individuals on the team may have opportunities for conflict because they are so different on a dimension Who has more similar personality traits Tolerance of differences How to communicate with each other better That each individual has strengths to bring to the team, depending on the situation To seek out those with different viewpoints Activities to perform in a Team Building Session: A continuum line up - teammates line up according to their score on each trait Everyone posts their Big Five scores on the flip chart Other products: The Owners Manual for Personality at Work, The WorkPlace Big Five Workbook, The Teamer Report Leadership Development In a leadership development session using the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile, participants will learn about their personality profile and how it relates to the typical leader profile. Participants will learn: About their personality profile The typical leader profile Customizing a leader profile to their industry, company, department, etc. Strategies to compensate where they differ from the leader profile Various Leadership Models Etc. Activities to perform in a Leadership Development Session: A continuum line up - participants line up according to their score on each trait Everyone posts their Big Five scores on the flip chart Other products: The Owners Manual for Personality at Work, The WorkPlace Big Five Workbook, The Leader Report Coaching When you combine personality traits with performance information, then one can capitalize on strengths and determine where training will be effective and where compensating strategies are required. Participants will learn: About their personality profile About the competencies that are energizing, natural, somewhat natural, draining and outside of comfort zone for them How their personality supports and hinders their current role To capitalize on their strengths In which competencies they may need training or support In which competencies they should find compensating strategies for Other products: The Owners Manual for Personality at Work, The WorkPlace Big Five Workbook, The Career Guider Selection/Succession Planning Using the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile, companies can define a target profile for a specific job, then assess candidates against it. This is one of the steps to take in the selection process along with critical behavior i nterviewing, reference checks, IQ testing and more. By getting the right people in the right role, companies can: Reduce attrition Increase productivity Increase associate satisfaction and morale Use training dollars effectively Other products: The Job Profiler (Traits), The Job ProFiler (Competencies), The Competency Card Sort Facilitator George Quek is an accomplished consultant, coach and facilitator who works with senior leaders like CEOs, VPs and GMs and their teams to improve their individual and organisational leadership and management performance. He has trained, coached and consulted for more than 3,000 executives and leaders from over 100 organisations throughout the Asia Pacific in the last 5 years. Prior to that, he had over 15 years of senior leadership experience with Fortune 500 and regional multi-national corporations. Recognized as an authority on Structured Mentoring in Asia, George has helped implemented mentoring initiatives for more than 15 organisations in the last 2 years. He is the partner in Asia of Clutterbuck Associates, whose founder Professor David Clutterbuck is the world s leading authority on mentoring. George regularly conducts workshops on Structured Mentoring with the Singapore Institute of Management, Hong Kong Management Association and Thailand Management Association. George is an adjunct faculty with the Center for Creative Leadership where he coaches and facilitates international senior executives on leadership and personal development. He was part of the faculty panel for the center s inaugural Advanced Global Leadership program. In addition, he is part of an elite group of coaches specially selected by McKinsey & Company to work with its partners. George is also the founding director of DistincTions Asia, a boutique consulting firm with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. George earned both Bachelor and Master in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He qualifies with a Certificate in Corporate Coaching from Corporate Coach U, USA. George is a certified behavioural consultant and a master certifier for DISC as well as an accredited MBTI and FIRO-B administrator and practitioner. He is also certified in Center for Creative Leadership s suite of 360 assessment tools like Benchmarks as well as Conflict Dynamics Profile and WorkPlace Big Five ProFile. For innovation, George is a certified trainer in KnowBrainer, an innovation tool and process programme from USA.
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